Prozorovskoye rural settlement
St. Michael's Church in the village of Prozorovo.
Until the beginning of the 19th century, the village always had a church with one altar in the name of Archangel Michael, who was the patron saint of the first Prince of Mologa Mikhail Davydovich, whose inheritance included the village of Prozorovo. The church was wooden, and when it fell into disrepair, a similar wooden one was built in its place. The construction of a new stone temple is associated with the name of Alexei Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin. He, and later his sons, owned vast lands in the Mologsky district for almost two centuries. On the site of the old wooden church, a stone church was built with two altars: a summer one in the name of the Holy Trinity and a winter one in the name of Archangel Michael. On November 21, 1810, with a huge gathering of people and in the presence of Count A.I. Musin-Pushkin, the church in the village of Prozorovo was consecrated. Talented serf artists took part in the creation of the artistic interior of the church under the guidance of a graduate of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, the son of the estate manager Count Ivan Vladimirovich Shlyakhtenkov.
The church was closed in 1937 and only in 1999. she has found her second birth. In November of the same year, on their patronal feast day, the day of the memory of Michael the Archangel, the first Divine Liturgy was celebrated after a long period of devastation and desolation. Currently, it has been completely renovated and by its 200th anniversary, the interior painting was completed, bells were installed, and the surrounding area was put in order. With the revival of the temple, the village regained its "face" and spiritual support. To date, the Mikhailovsky Temple is practically the only architectural and historical legacy remaining in our region of the entire noble family of the Musins–Pushkins, who built temples, opened schools, and engaged in economic transformations on the Mologsky lands for many decades.
The Prozorovsky House of Culture.
A typical building built for a school in 1929, designed by architect Alexei Vasilyevich Ermakov. Prior to that, the school was housed in several confiscated merchant houses and houses of wealthy peasants, which were also confiscated in the twenties of the last century. Parents also took an active part in the construction of the future school – they cut down the forest reserved for these purposes, took it out on horses, and pelted logs. The school accepted its first students in 1930. For 57 years, bells rang and lessons went on, teachers and students changed. In 1987, another typical two-story school building was built in the village, and the entire school learning process is carried out in an already new and modernly equipped school. The House of Culture, which was previously located in the former merchant's house of Mikhail Fedorovich Beloglazov, moved into the vacant building. And in 1988, the library, which had previously also been in a private house, moved here to one of the former classrooms. Both of these cultural institutions continue to operate and serve the benefit of the Prozorovo population and the surrounding villages.
Kurgan
The mounds of ancient pagan graves belong to the historical monuments of the 11th-13th centuries. These historical monuments were discovered and studied by Russian scientists M.P. Pogodin, P.N. Tretyakov, and others. One of these mounds is located on the banks of the Redma River, not far from the bridge connecting the two parts of the village, on the Mikhailovskaya side, a place popularly called the "Goat Swamp."
At the beginning of the last century, it was an embankment ten meters high and the same length. A gazebo was built on top of it, to which a wide staircase with a railing led from the base of the ground. According to the old-timers, the merchants of Prozorovo loved to sit there, have leisurely conversations and admire the local nature. Excavations of this mound began in September 1926, led by a professor from Rybinsk, Chizhikov (according to excavation participant A. Ya. Ryabov), who hired 5 people from among the locals for one ruble a day. When a wide corridor was dug into the embankment and it was possible to start excavating deep from the base of the earth, one of the side walls of the embankment collapsed and overwhelmed four people. And the fifth, who was supposed to replace one of the diggers, remained alive. The court accused the excavation organizer of violating safety regulations and ordered him to pay a pension of 8 rubles per month to the relatives of the victims for their children. This is how the excavation of this mound ended tragically. It is currently overgrown with trees, but it is still clearly visible from the bridge over the river.
The spring
This natural spring is located near the Redma River. It has been known in the village since ancient times. A wooden log cabin was always made in his circle. In the 70s of the last century, the wooden log house was replaced with concrete rings. The water in it is soft, odorless and sedimentary, cold, and does not freeze in winter. Residents of nearby streets used the well, mainly collecting spring water for tea. In the same 70s, our countryman, reserve Colonel V. Kozharin, who lived in Moscow, took water from this spring for laboratory samples in order to carefully study the composition of the liquid and analyze it. As a result of all the work carried out, the high quality of water from our source was revealed.
The house of merchant Belyakov.
The date of construction is 1905. The house is wooden, two-storied. Large windows with rich and intricate carvings on the architraves and on the cornice, the name and initials of the owner of the mansion carved in a bizarre wooden web, spoke without words about his financial condition and position in society. He owned a hardware store, two brick factories, and a watermill.
The store was located on the ground floor of his huge, at that time, house. The entrance to the store was from the road. Sellers were hired. There was a front porch on the other side of the house. A wide wooden staircase with a handrail led to the second floor, where the Belyakovs' family lived - the owner himself, Alexander Grigorievich, his wife Ekaterina Matveevna, and the children, Antonina, Vladimir, Nikolai, and Valentina. In 1928, the whole family was dispossessed and exiled to the Arkhangelsk region. Nothing is known about their fate. And the house was given to the school. A school was located there for a long time – four classes of students. In the 80s, the building was sold into private hands. And two more times he changed his masters. The house has never been renovated, except for the front porch, which is now gone. But the same large windows and still preserved carvings on them remind of its former greatness.
Monument to the victorious soldier in the Great Patriotic War
It was built in 1967. It is a pedestal on which stands a full-length figure of a soldier with a machine gun in his hand raised high to the sky. The monument stands on an elevated, sunny and beautiful place. Its grand opening took place in October of the same year. Already in this century, memorial plaques with the names of our countrymen who died on the battlefields, 294 surnames, were installed next to the monument. In 2020, new ones were added to these plates – the names and surnames of the participants in this war who returned Victorious.
The Church gatehouse
– located next to the monuments. Brick. It was originally built on two floors. It belonged to the Church of the Nativity of Christ, which was closed under Soviet rule in the 1930s. and destroyed in the mid-fifties. The gatehouse was given to the school. On the ground floor there was a carpentry workshop, where labor teachers made stools and birdhouses with students, on the second floor there were physics and chemistry classrooms.
When the school moved to a new stone building (the 80s), the former church gatehouse was acquired by a collective farm and adapted into a fire station, after which the second floor was demolished and the interior space was changed. Currently, this antique object is in private hands and has long been empty. He wants to look better.
The implementation of the Prozorovo-old Village development project is a key project for the development of the village.Prozorovo , therefore, both rural residents and district residents, as well as the Administration of the Breitovsky district, the Government of the Yaroslavl region and district entrepreneurs are interested in it. The synergetic effect of combining various programs, as well as multiple sources of funds raised, will make it possible to implement a comprehensive territorial development project as efficiently as possible.
Planned activities:
organization of a kiosk selling pastries and drinks on the design site, bicycle rental, ice cream sales, a library, installation of vending machines for soft drinks, organization of physical culture and sports events, organization of cultural and other events, organization of a weekend farmer's market.
